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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Mobility and Environmental Systems Laboratory (U.S.) | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-09T19:11:44Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2019-01-09T19:11:44Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 1964-08 | - |
| dc.identifier.govdoc | Miscellaneous Paper No. 4-670 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/31329 | - |
| dc.description | Miscellaneous Paper | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | At the request of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), Vicksburg, Mississippi, accepted the responsibility for arranging and implementing the second Advisory Committee meeting on Mobility Environmental Research Study (Project MERS), sponsored by ARPA, and for the preparation and publication of the conference proceedings. The meeting was held at WES on 24-26 February 1964. This report consists of 18 papers presented at the Advisory Committee meeting, summaries of important discussions and questions relative to the various papers, the Committee's conclusions and recommendations, and a report of an Ad Hoc Working Group recommended by the Committee to examine the applicability of an airborne profilometer to obtain terrain profiles. The papers included reports on WES studies related to Project MERS, review of project history, conclusions and recommendations of the first Advisory Committee meeting held at Bethesda, Maryland, on 7-9 November 1962, accomplishments on Project MERS tasks since the first committee meeting, Marsh Screw Amphibian tests conducted by WES, Project MERS plans for the next 12 months, and funding status and requirements for Fiscal Year 1965. The meeting attendants included 7 members of the Advisory Committee and 28 observers and visitors. Col. William J. Lynch, U. S. Army, ARPA Project Manager for Mobility and Logistics, was the meeting chairman, assisted by Mr. W. G. Shockley, Chief, Mobility and Environmental Division, WES, as cochairman. Professor K. B. Woods, Head, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, was chairman of the Advisory Committee and was assigned the responsibility for the committee report. The papers presented at the meeting are arranged in this report in the same order in which they were presented. The authors of the various papers presented are identified in the text. Project MERS is under the direct supervision of Mr. A. A. Rula, Chief Mobility Environmental Research Studies (MERS) Branch) and under the general supervision of Mr. W. G. Shockley) Chief) Mobility and Environmental Division) WES. During the conduct of the phase of the work reported herein, Col. Alex G. Sutton) Jr. ) CE) was Director of the Waterways Experiment Station) and Mr. J. B. Tiffany was Technical Director. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | At the request of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), Vicksburg, Mississippi, accepted the responsibility for arranging and implementing the second Advisory Committee meeting on Mobility Environmental Research Study (Project MERS), sponsored by ARPA, and for the preparation and publication of the conference proceedings. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | PREFACE-iii ATTENDANTS-vii PROGRAM-xi INTRODUCTION-1 WES MEGA STUDIES, by W. E. Grabau-2 WES TRAFFICABILITY, TERRAIN ANALYZER, AND MOBILITY STUDIES, by S . J. Knight -8 REVIEW OF BACKGROUND AND HISTORY OF PROJECT MERS, by R. R. Friesz -28 REVIEW OF FIRST ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING RECOMMENDATIONS, by R. R. Friesz -32 GENERAL STATUS REPORT ON PROJECT MERS ACTIVITIES, by A. A. Rula-36 DISCUSSION-63 MARSH SCREW AMPHIBIAN, by E. S. Rush-64 DISCUSSION-69 CONCEPTUAL APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF TERRAIN-VEHICLE RELATIONS, by R. D. Wismer - 70 COMPILATION OF EXISTING TRAFFICABILITY DATA, by G. T. Cohron-87 ONE-PASS SOIL TRAFFICABILITY STUDY, by C. J. Nuttall, Jr.-97 MOBILITY IN RICE FIELDS, by J. G. Kennedy -119 DISCUSSION -127 ENVIRONMENTAL DATA-COLLECTION MANUAL, by E. E. Addor-128 DISCUSSION-133 REVIEW OF PUBLISHED ENVIRONMENTAL DATA OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, by J. H. Shamburger -134 PREDICTION OF TERRAIN CHARACTERISTICS IN THAILAND BY AIRPHOTO INTERPRETATION, by W. K. Dornbusch, Jr-140 RADAR STUDIES FOR DETECTION OF S.URFACE AND GROUNDWATER, by B. R. Davis-149 DESIGN AND ACQUISITION OF INSTRUMENTS AND TEST.VEHICLES, by R. D. Wismer -156 DISCUSSION -165 CLASSIFICATION OF TERRAIN TYPES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, by w. E. Grabau -166 STATE-OF-THE-ART OF OFF-ROAD VEHICLE DESIGN, by C. J. Nuttall, Jr. -174 PLANS FOR THE NEXT 12 MONTHS, by A. A. Rula-180 DISCUSSION-186 CONCLUSION-186 APPENDIX A: ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORT-A1 APPENDIX B: REPORT OF AD HOC COMMITTEE ON APPLICABILITY OF AIRBORNE PROFILOMETER -B1 | - |
| dc.format.extent | 206 pages / 13.58Mb | - |
| dc.format.medium | PDF/A | - |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Miscellaneous Paper (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station);no. 4-670 | - |
| dc.rights | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited | - |
| dc.source | The ERDC Library created this digital resource using one or more of the following: Zeta TS-0995, Zeutcehl OS 12000, HP HD Pro 42-in. map scanner, Epson flatbed | - |
| dc.subject | Armed Forces--Mobilization--Congresses | en_US |
| dc.subject | Armed Forces--Mobilization--Environmental aspects | en_US |
| dc.title | Report of Second Meeting of ARPA Advisory Committee on Mobility Environmental Research Study (24-26 February 1964, Vicksburg, Mississippi) | en_US |
| dc.type | Report | - |
| Appears in Collections: | Miscellaneous Paper | |
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